Assandi Times

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New York, April 21, 2014--The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the shutting down of Assandi-Times,
the last remaining independent newspaper in Kazakhstan. A court in Almaty today
declared the weekly a structural part of banned newspaper Respublika, three weeks after court
marshals raidedAssandi-Times'
offices, ordered the journalists to stop working, tried to force the staff out
and seal the premises, and confiscated the paper's archives.

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York, April 3, 2014--An independent paper, the Assandi Times, was
suspended indefinitely on Tuesday, according to news reports. The Committee to
Protect Journalists condemns recent measures taken by Kazakh authorities to
shut down independent news outlets in the country.

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New
York, March 28, 2014--Authorities should drop all charges against a Kazakh
journalist who has been accused of libel in connection with a story she has
denied writing, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. If convicted,
Natalya Sadykova faces up to three years in jail under Kazakhstan's criminal
libel law.